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If you want to test the Internet speed on a server or you simply want to avoid the speedtest.net Flash interface, you can use speedtest-cli, a command line tool for testing Internet bandwidth.

speedtest-cli tests your Internet speed using the popularspeedtest.net website and it supports listing servers sorted by distance, testing against a specific server, you can use it with a Speedtest Mini server and it can even generate and provide a URL to the speedtest.net share results image.

Install speedtest-cli

speedtest-cli can be installed using Python Pip. To install Pip in Ubuntu, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-pip

Then, install speedtest-cli:

sudo pip install speedtest-cli

Later on, when you want to upgrade speedtest-cli, use the following command: